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Sen. Tom Cotton - July 9th, Hour 3
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118 days till election day, 69 days till early voting starts.
Uh we are awaiting President Biden's speech before the uh NATO summit of fake news CNN describing it as a make or break moment for Biden in terms of Kenny's show, he is cognitively strong enough to be the leader of the free world.
We'll get to all of that as it unfolds.
Um, but first we're joined by the great senator from the great state of Arkansas, Senator Tom Cotton is back with us.
Senator, how are you?
I'm very good.
Sean, thanks for having me back on with you.
Always great to have you.
What what do you make of, you know, all of a sudden I've been chronicling Joe Biden's cognitive decline for prior to the 2020 election.
Now all of a sudden, uh, after the debate, all of uh people just happen to notice all of it.
And in spite of all of the evidence that have been out there pretty much on a daily basis, I find it somewhat laughable.
On the other hand, it's pathetic because Bog Biden's cognitive decline cover-up and deception is so broad based within the Democratic Party, within the media mob.
Uh it's it's it's revolting to me.
Yeah, Sean, it is both laughable and pathetic.
Uh, I was amused that Joe Biden yesterday started blaming the elites uh for trying to force him out of the nomination.
Well, it's in fact it's the elite that got him the nomination in the first place, Sean.
Remember, without Jim Clyburn in 2020, he probably wouldn't have been the nominee.
And then the Democratic Party fell in line behind him as the only alternative to socialist Bernie Sanders.
And again, in this election, they close ranks, they shut down Robert F. Kennedy, they shut down Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips, they did everything they can to avoid Joe Biden having a primary opponent.
When the polls have shown for years that the people, as usual, are much smarter and have more common sense than the elites, even Democratic voters, much to say nothing of voters at large, thought Joe Biden was too old and too infirm to run for president.
But the elites wanted to protect Joe Biden.
They acted like a Praetorian guard.
He went through their primaries, and now they realize that they made a mistake.
The Joe Biden we saw in that debate is no different than the Joe Biden that we saw over the last six months, Sean.
They're not worried about last six months, pretty much the last four years.
I I'm I mean, I saw this part of the 2020 election, but I understand your point.
It seems more uh the decline, I guess is more obvious, but it's been there the whole time.
It's been there the whole time, but it's just over the last six months the Democrats had their primaries, in which again they protected him from any competition from any kind of opponent.
So these democratic elites that you see in Congress and the media, they're not all of a sudden surprised about a health problem, Sean.
They're concerned about a polling problem.
That is the only thing on their mind.
They see Donald Trump shellacking Joe Biden all across the country and the potential for Republican landslide.
That's their concern.
Well, let me ask you this, because the Democrats had this big meeting today.
What was so interesting to Come out of it was a guy like Jerry Nadler, who wanted uh over the weekend had stated that he wanted Biden to be removed, and he comes out of the meeting with a change of heart and say uh clearly the battle was won by Biden supporters.
Now you have people very powerful people like James Clyvern, I think maybe the most powerful influential voice in the House for Democrats, and you have the Congressional Black Caucus, then you have AOC in the squad.
They've all solidly stayed behind Joe Biden.
I think that is the real power base of the Democratic Party, and why would they not like Joe?
He pretty much is a rubber stamp for every radical agenda item that they have.
But they came out of the meeting today, and clearly a a defeated Jerry Nadler, you know, reverses himself and says, Well, he's our guy, you know.
I um I tried, but you know, I'm gonna support him.
And that was not where he was over the weekend, which tells me that it did not go well for the people that were speaking ill of Joe Biden in this meeting, and then they've got a a timing problem, and as much as they're gonna have they have to nominate virtually before I believe it's August 5th or August 7th,
whatever it is, and probably even before that, uh Joe Biden, which is less than a month, and if Joe Biden can survive a month, then he will be their official nominee and locked in and you know, barring any real health issue or or something catastrophic, uh, he's gonna be on the ballot in November.
Yeah, sure, I I did it.
It's not surprising these progressive Democrats want to keep Biden on the uh ticket.
He has been a useful puppet for them for three and a half years.
This is part of the deal that Joe Biden cut with the party elite in 2020.
Support him for the president, help him win, and he'll turn over policymaking to the radicals in the Democratic Party, and you've seen it on the uh the border and immigration policy, you've seen it on abortion, you've seen it on spending.
At every point, Joe Biden has turned over power to radicals in the Congress and in his administration.
So of course the progressives want to keep him in office.
And uh I gotta say, Sean, even though I mean we've seen this decline now going back years, and the Democratic elites acted like the performance in the debate was shocking.
Even if Joe Biden were 25 years younger and healthy and energetic and vigorous, he still would have been a failed president because all of his ideas are failures, all of his policies are failures, and that's the same thing that would happen if Kamala Harris replaced them or Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Wetmer or anyone else.
They are all aligned with the radical progressive policies that Joe Biden has allowed his party to implement.
I'm glad you're making that point because I've been making that point because this party is lockstep.
I mean, it doesn't matter who is in that office, the the policies will remain the same.
And that means the policies of open borders, the horrible economic policies they put in place, uh you know, defund, uh dismantle no bail laws, that will remain in place.
Horrible energy policies will remain in place, uh a horrible education system because they're so beholden in this unholy alliance with the teachers' unions, uh, an American foreign policy that surrendered in the war against terrorism in the case of Israel, and and pretty much lets our our top geopolitical foes get away with anything and everything they want with no pushback at all.
On top of that, a green agenda that wants to force electric vehicles and people's garages, whether they want them or not, uh, and and one that forces us to be more dependent on energy than we ever should be, considering our our vast natural resources.
Yeah, uh on all those issues and more shine, you will not find a dime's worth of difference on the one hand between Joe Biden and on the other hand, Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer or any other potential presidential contender for the Democrats.
They are monolithically progressive, and the reason why they're gonna keep Joe Biden in this position, aside from the logistical and practical consideration, is he has been a useful vessel and cipher to implement those radical policies.
I'll be at the Republican National Convention coming up next week, I'll be at the Democratic National Convention, wish me luck in Chicago.
And to get credentialed, I needed to prove who I was.
There is the SAVE Act that is going on and being debated in the House.
I believe it will be voted on next week, and House Democrats are fighting this bill that would require, simply require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote.
Why are Democrats against voter ID?
Why are they against voter uh signature verification, updated voter rolls, chain of custody commands, partisan observers watching the voting all day, the vote counting up up close all night?
And why would they fight against the requirement of proof of citizenship to vote in our country?
Well, Sean to ask the question reveals the answer.
They're against it because they want those things to happen.
They want illegals to be able to vote an election and vote for Democrats.
They want to have voter fraud that doesn't require voter identification and genuine signatures.
And again, so you said you had to show credit or show who you were to get credentials uh for the conventions, and peace be upon you for going to the DNC, by the way.
Thank you.
I'll take the blessing as much as as many prayers as people want to offer, I'll take them.
But think about any time you hire a young producer or new uh audio tech, you have to verify that person's in the country legally to work.
You have to look at, say, a passport or other documents on their I-9 immigration form.
So why shouldn't you have to show a similar form when you want to vote?
Voting is the central act of our democracy.
If you have to show it to get a job in this country as an American citizen, shouldn't you have to be able to show it to register to vote?
You have to do it every single time, but when you register, the Democrats are opposing this bill because they want to make it easier to cheat in our elections.
Let me ask you about a bill that you introduced called the Bureaucratic Overreach Review Act, which would review federal court decisions on laws, regulations, legal cases used the uh and that used the recently overturned Chevron USA case versus Natural Resource Defense Council as the basis for their decisions.
Tell us about it.
Yeah, so Sean, the Chevron doctrine, about 40 years old, said that if a Congress passes an ambiguous law, then the agencies are empowered to interpret it.
Uh and I think the facts of the case that reverse Chevron last week are a perfect example uh of just how bad that doctrine could be.
So the fisheries regulator was empowered to put bureaucrats on fishing boats, taking away valuable space on a small boat.
And they went further and said, not only are we going to take this valuable bet on your boat while you're trying to make a living catching fish, we're gonna make you pay for the privilege of have our bureaucrat writing on your boat.
A totally unreasonable interpretation.
The Supreme Court was right to reverse it.
What we need now is a thorough review of all the regulations that are on the books that only survive because a court earlier invoked the Chevron deference doctrine.
Then we can even further rein in the administrative state that used this doctrine to expand its own power.
Yeah.
Uh so what does that mean pro what is this mean in on a practical basis for Americans?
In other words, that it were to require the government accountability office to submit a report to Congress that identifies uh these things and and require agencies to conduct a review of cases where the agency was a party of and accorded the Chevron case.
Yeah, Sean, so there's three practical effects that it could have.
Uh the first obviously is getting the agency um off of its duff to go back and look at cases where it overreached the authority that Congress granted to it.
Second, um, this will help private parties who may be harmed by these overreaching regulations to go back to court and say, under this now obsolete doctrine, this regulation survived, but the court needs to take a new look at it.
Third, and maybe most fundamentally, it'll give us in Congress uh the list of where we need to do a better job.
For years, Congress leaned on this crutch to pass vague ambiguous laws that avoided hard trade-offs that could involve political risk and just punted problems to these executive agencies.
So you had irresponsible members of Congress taking two bites of Apple, passing a vague ambiguous law saying they had solved the problem, and two or three years later, when the agency pass makes a regulation that is overbroad and burdensome to Americans, they can condemn the agency, so they get to have their cake and eat it too.
So there should be a many levels of review uh of these older and onerous regulations.
Well, please keep us uh up to speed on all of this.
We appreciate your time, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, we are awaiting Joe Biden's speech before uh our NATO leaders as they meet for a summit commemorating the 75th anniversary of this military alliance.
Wanna uh first remind you before uh we get to it, we're gonna carry it as much in full CNN fake news is saying it's a make or break moment for Biden.
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh we are awaiting President Biden.
Uh what many in the mob, the media that have been pushing for Biden to bow out of this race are calling a make or break speech before our NATO allies uh and to show our NATO allies that he is fit to serve.
Uh I think we have chronicled uh over the last four years, even before the last election, that Joe Biden had a significant cognitive decline.
Uh what time he's actually going to get up there and speak, I don't know.
But they they are seated.
They did take pictures.
There is somebody up at the podium right now.
I can't really see who that is uh in my my television window right now, but we'll let you know.
One odd fact is Kamala Harris is giving a rally in Nevada uh at the same time as the NATO speech.
Not really sure what to make of that, but if Joe speaks in the final 25 minutes of the program, we'll obviously uh carry it as it happens.
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In the meantime, before uh Joe Biden gives this speech, uh, let me go to our our friend from Utah, and that's Utah Senator Mike Lee, who is with us.
Uh, Senator, welcome to the program as we await Joe Biden's uh speech to confirm to our NATO allies that he is fit to serve.
What a what a sorry state of affairs that is for the country.
Indeed, it is.
I don't know about you, Sean, but I'm not holding my breath for Joe Biden to come out and suddenly be the magnificent orator, the rocket scientist, the uh the the tortured genius uh who just can't be articulate or eloquent enough.
Uh this is a man who has shown every sign of mental and now physical decline, and he's not served fit to serve as president of the United States.
It really is sad that that's the case.
What frustrates me is everybody's acting shocked and and feigning outrage and surprise.
Uh I think it's more related to Biden's low polling number than anything else.
Yeah, he definitely, you know, was checked out during the debate, but he's been checked out for a long time.
I mean, I've been showing video over and over and over again.
He has not had a clean event in two years that I can think of where he didn't have some cognitive issue.
He doesn't know whether to exit stage left or stage right.
He needs somebody to walk him off the stage.
How many times have we witnessed this guy shaking air?
How come people didn't notice he doesn't use the big boy stairs of Air Force One any longer or needs the a crowd around him as he's escorted to and from Marine One?
I mean, how you know how much more evidence do you need?
He can't do a Super Bowl interview for crying out loud.
He can't do a press conference, forget that.
That's not going to happen.
He does these interviews where apparently they're feeding questions to interviewers before the event takes place.
No, that's right.
I sometimes ask the question of constituents, of family members.
If you were a director, if you're a member of a board of directors of a large corporation, what's a job for which you would hire Joe Biden?
And would you under any circumstances consider hiring him as your chief executive officer for that corporation?
Even if he's a great job currently, it would be unwise to do that.
It's hard for me to imagine a job for which he'd be suited.
It doesn't mean that he he wasn't once capable of more things.
But what we see now is this is a man who shakes hands with invisible people.
This is a man who can't complete a sentence.
He's not fit to be our commander in chief.
And that's a that's a pretty scary proposition.
And the whole time that that we've been witnessing and chronicling this, and the media mob and Democrats have ignored the obvious, uh are our enemies, they've been watching and they've been maneuvering and they've been acting and they've been taking advantage of the fact that he's abdicated his role as the leader of the free world.
I I don't really care what he says to these NATO allies.
Uh I don't I don't think he's going to convince anyone in that audience that he's completely fit to serve and leave the free world.
Uh I think, you know, the hope is that he just survives it long enough that he can get the delegates to to vote and nominate him and lock in the nomination so they can't get rid of him.
Uh it seems to be a race against time at this particular point.
But they I assume they're gonna they're gonna make that that nomination.
Uh I don't want to waste my all my time with you.
Oh, and by the way, I have one job that he couldn't do.
He couldn't manage a crown burger shop out in Utah.
He couldn't be a greeter at Walmart.
You know those nice people that greet you when you walk into Walmart, and usually they're often retirees, people that want extra money, or people that that for whatever reason they just they just love to do it.
They're the nicest people in the world, and you walk in, hi, welcome to Walmart.
Can I help you with anything?
Yeah, I'd like to know where the sporting goods department is.
Oh, that's go down to the left, uh, go down aisle fourteen and on the right hand side there it is.
I don't think he's capable of that job, but I digress.
Look here's that's an important rule.
You've got to be familiar with the menu if you're working at Crown Burger in Salt Lake City or familiar with the layout of the Walmart in question.
If you're a greeter at Walmart, I don't think he could do either of this.
I don't think he could either.
Let's talk about why is it that Democrats don't want voter ID, they don't want signature verification, they don't want partisan observers up close watching the voting all day and the vote counting all night, why they don't want up updated voter roles,
and now they're fighting back against an effort in the House that would that would simply insist that people that want to vote that they are required to provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
Why would they be against that?
Well, for one simple reason.
If if you're comfortable with non-citizens voting, then you wouldn't see the need for this bill, and you might see it as an undue nuisance.
But literally, Sean, that is the only reason I can think of why somebody could oppose this.
In other words, I don't see any legitimate reason to do this.
The SAVE Act, uh this is a uh a bill I've introduced in the Senate.
Uh Congressman Chip Roy from Texas has introduced it in the House and prevent non-citizens from illegally voting.
They're already prohibited from voting in federal elections.
But right now there's no way of verifying that.
The Save Act would require proof of citizenship to vote in a federal election.
And uh now that we've got thirty million non-citizens in this country, about ten million of which uh came in during this presidency as illegal immigrants.
President Biden's got an increased heightened obligation to make sure that non-citizens aren't voting.
He's refusing to do this, he's opposing the SAFE Act, which the House is going to be voting on tomorrow.
Uh and he's doing so under this really creepy theory.
He says we don't need it because non-citizens already can't vote.
That makes no sense, Sean.
That's like saying it's already illegal to sell beer to little kids.
So we're not gonna have a law that requires ID to buy beer.
This is absolutely nuts, and it tells you everything you need to know about where his heart is on letting non-citizens vote.
Well, I think you're right.
Um, Senator, I think I'm gonna have to let you go, not because we don't love having you on the program.
We do, uh, but it appears that Joe Biden is now making his way to the po a podium to address NATO.
Uh this is being viewed uh as a fascinating moment in history.
Well, I guess maybe he's not actually being called up to s well, yeah, maybe he is.
I mean, we have the president of the United States.
Yeah, go ahead, sir.
To a podium from uh the side of a stage.
I mean, the idea I I it's like the stage is I'm trying to look at the podium.
I'm not really sure.
Linda, what do you see there?
Because I'm having a hard time.
No, so basically what we're looking at right now is Joe Biden went around behind and they have these huge wall separators.
So when he's walking over to where he would walk up the steps, it's completely um shielded from the audience.
So you can't see him go up the steps or attempt to or whatever is happening back there.
And then they have they may be doing the uh they're doing the national anthem now?
Yeah, they got a bunch of folks singing.
Um I'm not sure what's going on.
A lot of pomp and circumstance, you know, a lot of distraction with Kamala talking in Vegas, you know, just nonsense.
Well, by the way, Donald Trump will be speaking tonight in in Florida at Durrell.
Uh I already saw that a big crowd is already formed.
Uh if it's on during my hour on Hannity, uh we'll cover that for you as well.
Uh they're doing the national anthem right now.
But what a sad thing that a president of the United States is giving a speech that is viewed as a make or break speech to prove To our allies, Senator, that in fact uh he is fit to serve as the leader of this country, which is the leader of the free world.
What a sad state of affairs.
Just that that whole environment that he's now walking into.
And I guess he's going to be feeling a lot of pressure.
Maybe not.
Maybe he's too oblivious to feel the pressure, but he should be.
This is a source of deep national embarrassment and national peril that we have to worry about this.
And that we have to see our adversaries looking at our feeble commander-in-chief, who's not in possession of his faculties, and do this.
Perhaps this is why, at that exact moment, maybe maybe they expect that uh now that Jill Biden decided to commission the Marine Corps ban in writing her own theme song.
Uh maybe they're they're trying to cover up uh for the other things that were missing with the missing in action commander-in-chief.
Maybe that's a uh standard.
By the way, who does that?
That seems like something that one of the Habsburg Emperors might have done.
I think it's very strange that our first lady had her own theme song composed and then performed by the Marine Corps band.
Well, Senator, looks like we're going to let you go.
Uh, as I believe they're now introducing uh the President of the United States and the world's countries, including President Truman, came together in this very room.
History was watching.
It had been four years since the surrender of the Axis powers, the end of the most devastating world war the world had ever, ever known.
Here, these twelve leaders gathered to make a sacred pledge to defend each other against aggression, to provide the collective security, and to answer threats as one, because they knew to prevent future wars, to protect democracies, to lay the groundwork for lasting peace and prosperity, they needed a new approach.
They needed to combine their strengths.
They needed an alliance, and here they signed the Washington Treaty and created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the single greatest, most effective defense alliance in the history of the world.
Mr. Secretary General, leaders of NATO countries, foreign and defense ministers, representatives from partner nations in the European Union, and members of Congress, distinguished guests, welcome, welcome to the 2024 NATO Summit.
It's a pleasure.
It's a pleasure to host you in this milestone year, to look back with pride at all we've achieved and look ahead to our shared future with strength and with resolve.
Together, we rebuilt Europe from the ruins of war, held high the torch of liberty during long decades of the Cold War.
When former adversaries became fellow democracies, we welcome it in an alliance.
When war broke out in the Balkans, we intervened to restore peace and stop ethnic cleansing.
And when the United States was attacked on September 11th, our NATO allies, all of you stood with us, invoking Article V for the first time in NATO history.
Treating an attack on us as an attack on all of us.
A breathtaking display of friendship that the American people will never, ever, ever forget.
Through all this history, when great changes occurred, people would ask, can NATO adapt?
And every time we proved we could adapt, and we did, evolving our strategies to stay ahead of threats, reaching out to new partners to increase our effectiveness.
And here with us here with us today, our countries from the Indo-Pacific region.
They're here because they have a stake in our success.
And we have a stake in theirs.
Today, NATO is more powerful than ever.
Thirty-two nations strong.
For years, Finland and Sweden were among our closest partners.
Now they have chosen to officially join NATO.
And because of the power and meaning of Article 5 guarantee, that's the reason.
It was the most important aspect of the alliance in 1949, and it's still the most important aspect.
i'd also note finland and sweden joined the alliance not just because their leaders saw right stations along the sean hannity show network please know that we are going to continue our coverage uh live of joe biden speaking before nato trying to reassure our allies that he is fit to We'll take this to the end of the show at the top of the hour, if you will stay with us.
I want to pause on this because it's significant.
In the year 2020, here I was the year I was elected president.
Only nine NATO allies are spending 2% of their defense, GDP on defense.
This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.
And some will spend more than that.
And the remaining countries that have not yet reached that milestone will get there soon.
This remarkable progress.
Proof that our commitment is broad and deep, that we're ready, that we're willing, we're able to deter aggression and defend every inch of NATO territory across every domain, land, air, sea, cyber, and space.
My friends, it's good that we're stronger than ever, because this moment history calls for our collective strength.
Autocrats on overturned global order, which is by and large kept for nearly 80 years and counting.
Terrorist groups continue to plot evil schemes to cause mayhem and chaos and suffering.
In Europe, Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine continues.
And Putin wants nothing less, nothing less than Ukraine's total subjugation to end Ukraine's democracy, to destroy Ukraine's culture, and to wipe Ukraine off the map.
And we know Putin won't stop at Ukraine, but make no mistake.
Ukraine can and will stop Putin.
Especially with our full collective support.
They have our full support.
Even before Russia bombs were falling in Ukraine, the alliance acted.
I ordered the U.S. reinforcements at NATO's eastern flank.
More troops, more aircraft, more capabilities.
And now the United States has more than 100,000 troops on the continent of Europe.
NATO moved swiftly as well.
Not only reinforcing the four existing battle groups in the East, but also adding four more.
And Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, essentially doubling NATO's strength on the Eastern Flank.
Together, we've built a global coalition to stand with Ukraine.
Together, we provide a significant economic and humanitarian assistance.
And together, we've supplied Ukraine with weapons it needs to defend itself.
Tanks, armored fighting vehicles, air defense systems, long-range missiles, and millions of munitions.
The United States, nearly two dozen Allied partners have signed a bilateral security agreements with Ukraine.
And more countries will follow.
Today, I'm announcing the historic donation of air defense equipment for Ukraine.
The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Italy will provide Ukraine with the equipment for five additional strategic air defense systems.
And in the coming months, the United States and our partners intend to provide Ukraine with dozens of additional tactical air defense systems.
The United States will make sure that when we export critical air defense interceptors, Ukraine goes to the front of the line.
They will get this assistance before anyone else gets it.
All told Ukraine will receive hundreds of additional interceptors Over the next year.
Helping protect Ukrainian cities against Russian missiles.
Ukrainian troops facing air attacks on their front lines.
Make no mistake.
Russia is failing in this war.
More than two years into Putin's war of choice.
His losses are staggering.
More than 350,000 Russian troops dead or wounded.
Nearly one million Russians, many of them young people, have left Russia because they no longer see a future in Russia.
And Kiev.
Remember, fellows and ladies.
Supposed to fall in five days, remember?
but still standing two and a half years later and will continue to stand All of the Allies knew before this war, Putin thought NATO would break.
Today, NATO is stronger than it's ever been in its history.
When this census war began, Ukraine was a free country.
Today, it is still a free country.
And the war will end with Ukraine remaining a free and independent country.
Russia will not prevail.
Ukraine will prevail.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a pivotal moment for Europe for the Translantic community.
And I might add for the world.
Let's remember the fact that NATO remains the bulwark of global security did not happen by accident.
It wasn't inevitable.
Again and again at critical moments.
We chose unity over disunion, progress over retreat, freedom over eternity, hope over fear.
Again and again, we stood behind our shared vision of a peaceful and prosperous transatlantic community.
Here at this summit, we gather to proclaim NATO is ready and able to secure that vision today and well into the future.
All right, there's a more energetic Joe Biden showing our NATO allies he's fit to serve.
Actually, a good day for Biden because he got the reassurance from Congress, the support of reversal of Gerald Nadler, the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, and James Clyburn.
Looks like he's here to stay, barring any major malfunction.
Anyway, we'll have full coverage.
Also, Donald Trump's speech tonight at Dural, 9 Eastern Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
We got a great lineup as well.
Uh coverage you'll never get from the media mob.
That's all the time we have left set you DVR.
We'll see you tonight at nine back here tomorrow.
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